Dear Bernalwood,
The Inwood-Marble Hill-Washington Heights phrase, “waiting on line,” is unintelligible to us average residents of Bernalwood’s hinterlands. The idiom used in our culture (west of the Delaware River, east of the Housatonic, north of the Rio Grande) is “waiting in line.” I suspect, too, that in the metropole of Bernalwood (whose core is perhaps Red Hill Books? Wild Side West?), linguistic habits favor “in line,” though my residency in Bernalwood’s far-flung provinces (Outer Inner Inner Sunset), precludes firsthand testimony.
Regionally yours,
Jason Dewees